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Lewy v. Standard Plunger Elevator Co.

Appellate Court of Illinois

Decided May 28, 1920No. Gen. No. 25,218PublishedCited by 2 opinions

Appeal from the Superior- Court of Cook county; the Hon. M. L. McKinley, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the March term, 1919. Certiorari denied by Supreme Court (making opinion final).

1Opinion of the Court

Mr. Presiding Justice Matchett

delivered the opinion of the court.

Plaintiff below brought suit against defendant-appellant in an action of assumpsit. The declaration alleged the making of a contract between the parties on the 1st day of November, 1914, by the terms of which appellee, Daniel Lewy, was employed as a salesman -for the term of five years beginning on that date and ending October 31,1919. In one of the counts the contract is set up in hcec verba. Its material provisions are that the territory assigned to Lewy is the State of Illinois with the right to solicit specific jobs from…

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. Oscanyan v. Arms Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1881
  2. Barnett v. Caldwell Furniture Co.Illinois Supreme Court · 1917
  3. Crichfield v. Bermudez Asphalt Paving Co.Illinois Supreme Court · 1898
  4. Goodrich v. TenneyIllinois Supreme Court · 1893
  5. Cook v. ShipmanIllinois Supreme Court · 1860

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3Cited by2 opinions

  1. Herrin v. StocksAppellate Court of Illinois · 1942
  2. Thomas Collins v. Clark O. Murray and William Evans, Doing Business as Inland Newspaper Supply Company of Kansas City, Missouri, a PartnershipCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1963

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